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Computer Security Art and Science, 2nd Edition
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Computer Security Art and Science, 2nd Edition

by Matt Bishop
November 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1440 pages
48h 29m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 17

Information Flow

BOTTOM: Masters, I am to discourse wonders: but ask me not what; for if I tell you, I am no true Athenian. I will tell you every thing, right as it fell out.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, IV, ii, 30–33.

Although access controls can constrain the rights of a user, they cannot constrain the flow of information through a system. In particular, when a system has a security policy regulating information flow, the system must ensure that the information flows do not violate the constraints of the policy. Both compile-time mechanisms and runtime mechanisms support the checking of information flows. Several systems implementing these mechanisms demonstrate their effectiveness.

17.1 Basics and Background

Information flow ...

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ISBN: 9780134097145